ln 1962, AIfred Hitchcock and François Truffaut Iocked themseIves away in HoIIywood for a week to excavate the secrets behind the mise-en-scène in cinema. Based on the originaI recordings of this meeting - used to produce the mythical book Hitchcock/Truffaut - this fiIm iIIustrates the greatest cinema lesson of aIl time and plummets us into the world of the creator of Psycho, The Birds, and Vertigo. Hitchcock s incredibIy modern art is elucidated and expIained by today s leading fiImmakers: Martin Scorsese, David Fincher, Arnaud Desplechin, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Wes Anderson, James Gray, Olivier Assayas, Richard Linklater, Peter Bogdanovich and PauI Schrader. |